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0-20 (a raceme fe 7H) ” Exec AD Adm. __ Exec AD Inv. Exec AD LES .__ | Asst. Dir: Adm. Servs. _ ' Crim. In ee kid Ident. 7 Intell. Laborato ee ( At Kid Legal Ca. Plan. & Insp. __ CHILD DEATHS Rec. Mgnt. _ ATLANTA CAP) -- DESPITE A RASH OF 40 SLAYINGS OF YOUNG BLACKS JR Tech. Servs. THE LAST 46 BEEKS: INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY ARE NO CLOSER TO SOLVING Training THE BAFFLING CASES THAN THEY WERE WHEN THE STRING OF 26 SLAYINGS BEGAN ALMOST THO YEARS AG0. Public Affs. Off. _ Telephone Rm. __ Director's Sec’y — - VERON GUR STANDPOINT: WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT REPETITIONs’* SAID A SOURCE WHO HAS REEN INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION SINCE A SPECIAL TASK FORCE WAS FORKED TO INVESTIGATE THE CASES NINE MONTHS AGO, 7T THINK RERE STILL PLODDING. WE DON'T HAYE ANY CHOICES’? THE SOURCE: WHO ASKED NOT TO BE IDENTIFIED: WAS QUOTED AS SAVING IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL ON THURSDAY. ANOTHER POLICE SQURCE: WHO ALSO REQUESTED ANGHYMITYs SAID THE STEPPED-UP FREQUENCY OF THE MURDERS INDICATES THE KILLER OR KILLERS ARE NOT BORRIED ABQUT BEING CAUGHT. - UTE VG GET CLOSE TQ HIM: HE'S GCING TO TEND TO BACK OFF s?? THE POLICE SGURCE SAID. 9 BUT HE'S PICKING UP THE PACE. THEREFOREs | DOH)T BELIEVE WE'YE GOTTEN CLOSE TG HIN.?? NINE OF THE 40 VICTIMS SINCE JANUARY HAYE DIED FROM SOME FORK OF ASPHYXIATIONs FROM SUFFOCATION TQ STRANGULATION. THAT RETHOD OF KILLING LEAVES NO TELL-TALE CLUES THAT A GUNSHOT OR KNIFE ROUND WOULD: AUTHORITIES SAID, eed MANY OF THE YOUTHS WERE FOUND STRIPPED TO THEIR UNDERWEAR OR NAKED IN RIVERS: WHERE CLUES WERE LIKELY WASHED AWAY. T-ly GNE BODY; THAT OF 24-YEAR-OLD LARRY ROGERS: WAS FOUND APRIL 9 IN AN ABANDONED APARTHENT,s AND INVESTIGATORS SAID AT THE TINE THEY WERE HOPEFUL THE CRIME SCENE WOULD PRODUCE A BREAK IN JHE CASE. AT BUT AUTHORITIES SAID ROGERSs WHO WAS STRANGLED, WAS APPARENTLY DEAD BEFORE HIS BODY WAS DUMPED IN THE APARTMENT AND THERE WAS LITT Sai HECROED USEEIN EVIDENCE AT THE SCENE. JUN 6 1981 ' HERNWHILE, ALABAKA MENTAL HEALTH OFFICIALS SAID THE NAMES OF 14 oe <m= — FORNER BRYCE HOSPITAL MENTAL PATIENTS RELEASED INTO GEORGIA DURING AN ; +" 25/-A 48-NONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO JULY 4979 WHEN THE KILLINGS BEGAN HAVE BEEN TURNED OVER TG FBI AGENTS INVESTIGATING THE ATLANTA CASES. JAINE CONDON: ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER OF THE ALABANA MENTAL HEALTH ; DEPARTMENTs SAD THURSDAY THAT AN FBI AGENT "*CANE BY HERE TRO OR oo, Th APT FUP APRA id GET THE RECORDS FROR 7 Sar \ oe BG WASHINGTON CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE